Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.
I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only get to work with music but also with words. Sometimes it's a difficult process but a lot of the time it's really fun.
Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.
Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.
When you work with words, words are your work.
In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.
LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions.
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
